As predicted, the #Obamacare system is turning into another V.A. fail

Months after the deadline to enroll in a health insurance plan through ObamaCare has come and gone, thousands of Americans have found themselves without coverage due to backlogs or glitches in various enrollment systems, according to a published report.

The Wall Street Journal reports that people in states like Massachusetts, California, and Nevada selected and paid for a private health insurance plan through state-run exchanges, only to find that they were not insured. Others have waited futilely for changes to their coverage brought about by marriage, childbirth or other “life events” to take effect.

As a result, some say they have put off seeking medical treatment or have paid out of pocket for certain expenses.

In Nevada, approximately 150 people have turned to litigation, filing a class-action suit against the state-run exchange and Xerox Corp., which helped set it up.

One of those plaintiffs, Robert Rolain, tells the Journal that he signed up his wife, Linda, this past October for a health plan through the state exchange that was due to take effect March 1. In the interim period, doctors found a tumor on his wife’s brain and planned surgery. When Rolain brought his wife to an oncologist to have the procedure done, he was told she wasn’t covered, and the surgery was pushed back two months, to May 14. A little more than a month later, Linda Rolain was dead.

It’d be an understatement to say that this report is seriously disturbing, but – like many other negatives related to the run-up to the passage of the so-called “Affordable Care Act”, it was entirely predictable, and in fact was predicted by many. Make sure to read the full Wall Street Journal story on this and get outraged all over again at how there are so many stories you hear of people having to wait so long for answers and/or clarification on their “new” health care plans that they get sick or in some cases even die – and then remember how all of it perhaps could have been prevented had the administration chosen a different path.

And as if that story wasn’t bad enough for the Obama administration going into the summer months of this midterm election season, the New York Times of all places ran a similar story over the weekend on coverage issues and ridiculous wait times that are being and will be compounded in the extreme by Obamacare. Politico yesterday filed a report reaffirming that premium hikes will be hitting people at the end of the summer/beginning of fall at a time when Democrats – especially vulnerable ones like Senator Hagan here in NC – will be doing their level best to steer the focus off of this disastrous law and onto something else. When they do try to, remember heartbreaking stories like that of the Rolain family, detailed above, and don’t let incumbent Democrats – and voters – forget them.

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Obhammudcare will be the gift that keeps on giving for the GOP. People experience it first-hand daily as referenced in the story. It is not some fabrication like the phony “war on women” or the class warfare red flag of 1% vs. 99%.

Has anyone noticed that when the commiecrats try to deflect attention from their long unbroken string of failures they have these goofy “shiny objects” that just seem to spring full-blown from them in the manner of Minerva from the forehead of Neptune?